29 June 2015
Daning River landslide: a video that is purported to show the failure event
Posted by Dave Petley
Daning River landslide
CCTV in China has uploaded video onto Youtube that apparently shows the Daning River landslide collapse event:
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The video seems vaguely familiar so I am unsure as to whether it is actually this event. Certainly the shape of the failure and the type of landslide looks to be correct:
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Does anyone have any further information? The landslide is now believed to have killed two people.
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
The start of the video and the end look like they belong to separate events. There is considerable exposed waterline in the later images that does not appear in the slide frames at the beginning.